Monthly Archives: February 2023

9th Annual Winter Benefit

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Please join Women in Graduate Sciences for our 9th annual Winter Benefit on Thursday, March 9th at the Ford Alumni Center on the UO campus. We are hosting two back-to-back events, designed to provide an in-depth and engaging evening celebrating women and all marginalized genders in STEM! From 5-6 pm, join us for a cocktail hour where local community members are invited to learn about WGS’s initiatives, mix with our members, and hear from former WGS scholarship recipients about their research and experiences during a brief panel discussion. Then stay for the main event from 6-8 pm, where we welcome everyone for a buffet style dinner, silent auction, and lively seminar titled “Being a coral biologist during the climate crisis: Grief, hope and the importance of discovery in developing climate solutions,” by Dr. Virginia Weis, a marine physiologist with a focus on coral-algal symbiosis at Oregon State University. As the annual WGS fundraising benefit, the event offers a sliding scale of ticket prices ($30 for students, $70 for non-students, $130 for two tickets, and $500 for an 8-person table). RSVP here by March 1st to attend this event. Please share this information and the attached flier widely. If you have any questions please email Erin Jezuit: ejezuit@uoregon.edu. 

Winter Seminar with Dr. Rebecca Ruck

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Join us for our Winter Seminar Series with Dr. Rebecca Ruck! The seminar will be from 12-1pm in the Knight Campus Beetham Family Seminar Room followed by a pizza social on the Knight Campus terrace from 1-2pm. Dr. Rebecca Ruck is an Associate Vice President of Process Research & Development at Merck Pharmaceuticals. Rebecca runs Merck’s enabling technology group, an innovation incubator leveraging the diversity of the group to innovate how medicine is made. Becky is also actively involved in the external research community through academic collaborations, creation of Merck’s university lectureship series and recruiting efforts that have led to an unrivaled increase in the number of women in Merck’s Process R&D team. She has expanded her women in chemistry efforts externally through the WCC-Merck Research Award and Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry (EWOC) conference. For these efforts, Becky has been recognized with the 2018 ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences and as a 2020 HBA Rising Star and ACS Fellow. Please RSVP HERE.